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High-throughput screening of antagonists for the orphan G-protein coupled receptor GPR139

  • Acta Pharmacol Sin. 2015 Jul;36(7):874-8. doi: 10.1038/aps.2015.12.
Jia Wang 1 Lin-yun Zhu 1 Qing Liu 1 Morten Hentzer 2 Garrick Paul Smith 2 Ming-wei Wang 1
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 The National Center for Drug Screening and the CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China.
  • 2 Neuroscience Drug Discovery, H Lundbeck A/S, DK-2500 Copenhagen, Denmark.
Abstract

Aim: To discover antagonists of the orphan G-protein coupled receptor GPR139 through high-throughput screening of a collection of diverse small molecules.

Methods: Calcium mobilization assays were used to identify initial hits and for subsequent confirmation studies.

Results: Five small molecule antagonists, representing 4 different scaffolds, were identified following high-throughput screening of 16 000 synthetic compounds.

Conclusion: The findings provide important tools for further study of this orphan G-protein coupled receptor.

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